Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yearbook, at long last, has been weaned. In past years, the people at 52 Dunster Street clung as compulsively to a dull, comprehensive, list-everything format as to a mother's breast. Annually, the editors let the Yearbook organize them, instead of exerting a creative influence, and the end-product portrayed the Ivy League College of University Hall brochures instead of the Harvard that any senior knows...
...Yearbook's treatment of the Faculty in the past has been dismayingly dust-coverish. But this year the little, posed picture and short inconsequential recital of facts has given way to more sophisticated profiles, both pictorially and substantively. Most writers have adopted the interview transcript technique with varying degrees of success in grace and content. But this method usually seems artifical and makes the man unreal, since it often discusses him in a vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen...
...such articles are not representative. Rather than boring rehashes of past events, features in the yearbook analyze or argue: "House Drama: A Play wright's Remedy," "Why Virtuosos Survice at Harvard, Or Do They?" "Harvard's New Radicals." One may of course find these sloppily written or insufficiently argued. No longer, however, can they be summarily dismissed as superficial and bankrupt...
Cambridge 38 will be published again next year after a year of silence forced by financial problems. Benjamin S. Dunham '66, president of Harvard Yearbook Publications, said yesterday that the magazine will publish a general registration issue which, if financially sucessful, will be followed by three more issues during the year...
...magazine will solicit articles and photo essays from contributors both inside and outside Harvard. "Cambridge 38 has always been the best way of recruiting people to the Yearbook," Dunham said...